A Visit to the Past
Author | : Joanne Mattern |
Publisher | : Scott Foresman |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1999-08-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780673625366 |
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Author | : Joanne Mattern |
Publisher | : Scott Foresman |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1999-08-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780673625366 |
Author | : Joanne Mattern |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Reading (Elementary) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Clint Smith |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316492914 |
This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted. Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith's debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Stowe Prize Winner of 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021
Author | : Jennifer Egan |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2011-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849017409 |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010 Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. We meet Bennie at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in many places. With music pulsing on every page, this is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Breathtaking work from one of our boldest writers. 'Irresistible. Fiction of the highest quality' Sunday Times 'Egan's precise, calm underwater prose is a persistent pleasure' Daily Telegraph 'Stories that defy narrative convention' Financial Times 'A must-read' Sunday Times
Author | : Jane Griffith |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2019-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487513615 |
For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Author | : Emily E. Houck |
Publisher | : ASCD |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2012-11-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1416615261 |
This book provides school administrators with practical, easy-to-use, and inexpensive ways to reward and recognize the efforts of their staff. More than 100 ideas are divided into three categories based on the amount of effort they require. Recognizing and rewarding your staff can be as simple as writing a heartfelt thank-you note to a bus driver or as unexpected as taking a teacher's grading duty for a night. This invaluable guide will help principals and superintendents everywhere bring out the best in their teachers and staff members. The best part is that rewarding and inspiring your staff will be rewarding and inspiring for you too. Dr. Emily E. Houck is the former superintendent of the Scott Valley Unified School District in California.
Author | : William Winstanley (of the 4th Hussars.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Silas Farmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1094 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Detroit (Mich.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Keith Robbins |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1994-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082646047X |
The aspirations of democracy and the requirements of diplomacy have always coexisted uneasily. The politicians discussed in this book, in particular the appreciation of the careers of John Bright and James Bryce, reflect obliquely or directly on the problems of politicians who seek the 'high moral ground' either in domestic or international politics. There is also a discussion of the relationship between politicians and the press, as well as of the difficult link between cultural and political assumptions on the one hand and the facts of economic performance on the other.